As SoundExpert now has pretty stable flow of volunteer testers it is time to update codecs in all bitrate sections. After a short discussion at Russian bit-torrent tracker we decided to update 64-96-128-192-256-320 sections first. For the 64kbit/s section five codecs were chosen:

Bitrates are calculated on the basis of nine SE test samples concatenated. Fortunately first two codecs have close values of resulting bitrates at their corresponding discrete quality settings. Other contenders were adjusted to have close values.

As SoundExpert now has pretty stable flow of volunteer testers it is time to update codecs in all bitrate sections. After a short discussion at Russian bit-torrent tracker we decided to update 64-96-128-192-256-320 sections first.

It's probably a very daunting task to get good results going beyond 128 kbps. Have you performed successful listening tests at high bitrates in the past?

Wouldn't it be interesting to include MP3/LAME instead of three flavours of AAC?